Christopher Salazar could not stop with the plush round Kool-Aid Man. The 11-year-old claw machine master had to have more. So, outside a South Side strip mall on a recent early evening, he and his ...

Kiddleton opened a new claw machine arcade at Marketplace at Merced in June 2025. The arcade features 20+ self-service machines with Anime and Kawaii prizes. Claw machines operate without staff and ...

Claw-machine arcade chain Kako Claw, which opened a location at the Annapolis Mall earlier this year, will debut another location at Arundel Mills in October. It marks the company’s 10th location ...

Alice Mak says higher prize value and payouts will be considered, but priority of proposed new regime is to protect customers ...

Collectible plushies and trinkets have made waves on social media, and they're fueling a new business venture around Chicago. Claw machine arcades have emerged as popular sources of rare collectibles, ...

In a crowded casino made for kids, stocked with rows upon rows of neon, chiming claw machines, I saw my 12-year-old son’s life flash before my eyes. He had already drained $20 into a single machine ...

Have you ever wondered why you played the claw machine 10 times and lose and the next person behind you puts in one quarter and wins? It turns out, those claw machines are likely rigged. A recent ...

A claw machine store in Killeen that’s been open for around a month is getting local customers in by their wide variety of machines, the purple and pink glowing atmosphere and prizes that kids and ...